Julita Vassileva (conference chair) Lora Aroyo, Sidney D'Mello (PC chairs) http://umap2016.org

1. Welcome!
NEW in UMAP this year:
- Move across the Atlantic (after 3 years in Europe)
- Move to ACM as a sponsor (after 22 years UM
Inc)
- Move to ACM as a publisher (after 15 years with
Springer)
- New presentation model – short talks & posters

2. Review Process & Stats
• 123 submissions, each with 3 or even 4 reviews
• 21 long papers (23.9% acceptance rate)
• 13 short papers (27.6% acceptance rate)
• 17 extended abstracts for poster presentation
• posters, demos, and late breaking results
showcase the wide spectrum of novel ideas and latest
results in user modeling, adaptation and personalization

3. 14%
17%
17%
19%
33%
submissions Adaptive, Intelligent, &
Multimodal User Interfaces
Architectures, techniques &
methodologies for UMAP
Personalization in the Social
Web & Crowdsourcing Era
Adaptive & Personalized
Educational Systems
User Modelling for
Recommender Systems
9%
12%
20%
23%
36%
accepted

4. country authors submitted accepted PC members
United States 73 21,32 14,27 24
Italy 48 14,3 4,92 17
France 27 9,98 3,33 2
Australia 22 4,8 2 9
Canada 22 8,34 3,81 9
Ireland 17 8 4 7
United Kingdom 17 5,85 1,63 19
Austria 15 3,25 1,25 6
Netherlands 13 3,25 3,25 10
Brazil 11 3 1 0
Tunisia 11 5 0 0
Germany 10 4,37 3,17 13
Israel 10 3,44 1 2
Turkey 10 2,01 0,13 0
Norway 9 3,42 0,42 0
Japan 8 3 2 2
Slovakia 7 2 0 1
Submissions

5. country authors
submitte
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accepted
PC
member
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Denmark 0 0 0 2
New
Zealand 0 0 0 3
Philippines 0 0 0 1
Sweden 0 0 0 2
Switzerland 0 0 0 2
Submissions

6. 0
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UnitedStates
Italy
France
Australia
Canada
Ireland
UnitedKingdom
Austria
Netherlands
Brazil
Tunisia
Germany
Israel
Turkey
Norway
Japan
Slovakia
Cyprus
Malaysia
China
Finland
Pakistan
Belgium
Iran,Islamic…
Singapore
Spain
VietNam
HongKong
Peru
Qatar
Argentina
Azerbaijan
Chile
Greece
Luxembourg
Nigeria
SaudiArabia
Denmark
NewZealand
Philippines
Sweden
Switzerland
PC members
accepted
submitted
authors

7. Program Committee & Reviewers
• 132 PC members
• 49 sub-reviewers
• Track Chairs coordinated the reviews &
recommendations to PC Chairs
• at least 3 reviews per submission
• 95% of the submissions received 4 reviews
• meta-reviews
leading researchers of user modeling & adaptive hypermedia
communities

8. Track Chairs
User Modelling for Recommender Systems
• Alexander Felfernig & Pasquale Lops
Adaptive & Personalized Educational Systems
• Antonija Mitrovic & Kalina Yacef
Personalization in the Social Web & Crowdsourcing Era
• Alessandro Bozzon & Harith Alani

9. Track Chairs
Adaptive, Intelligent, & Multimodal User Interfaces
• Hatice Gunes & Julien Epps
Architectures, Techniques & Methodologies for UMAP
• Mihaela Cocea & Stephan Weibelzahl

10. Origin of Participants
Europe USA Canada
Asia South America Australia
Advance / Regular
Registrations
Advance Regular
Full / Main
Conference
Full Conf. Main Conf
Membership
ACM non-ACM

11. 31
11
2
1
3
2
4
21
2
2
67
128 Participants

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13. Comparison with previous UMAPs
UMAP 2014
Aalborg - 138
Non students
Students
UMAP 2015
Dublin - 125
Non students
Students
UMAP 2016
Halifax - 128
Non students Students

14. REGISTRANTS
Students
Student Funding
funded

15. Thanks to
our sponsors:
Platinum

16. Organization
• James Blustein & Eelco Herder – brothers in arms (in chairs)…
• Lora Aroyo & Sidney D’Mello – PC Chairs
• Federica Cena & Jie Zhang – Workshop Chairs
• Maria Bielikova & Vania Dimitrova – Doctoral Consortium Chairs
• Michel Desmarais & Darina Dicheva – Poster, Demo and LBR
Track Chairs

17. Big thanks also to
• Cristina Gena, Vania Dimitrova, Sidney D’Mello, Bamshad
Mobasher – Student Funding
• Christoph Trattner - Publicity; Eelco Herder – Website design,
Emmanuel Kaku – web help
• Peter Brusilovsky, Paul De Bra and Alfred Kobsa – invaluable advice
• Courtney Larkin, Angie Bolivar, Anne Publicover – local wizzards
• Lisa Tolles, Ashley Cozzi, Farrah Khan, Diana Brantuas, Maritza
Nichols – ACM contacts
• Simon Harper (SIG-WEB) and Aaron Quigley (SIG-CHI) liaisons
• Peter Dolog, Owen Conlan – statistics from previous UMAP
conferences